EP0177083A2 - Einheit zur Ausgabe und Dosierung von Tierfutter - Google Patents

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EP0177083A2
EP0177083A2 EP85201469A EP85201469A EP0177083A2 EP 0177083 A2 EP0177083 A2 EP 0177083A2 EP 85201469 A EP85201469 A EP 85201469A EP 85201469 A EP85201469 A EP 85201469A EP 0177083 A2 EP0177083 A2 EP 0177083A2
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Camillo Pirovano
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    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K5/00—Feeding devices for stock or game ; Feeding wagons; Feeding stacks
    • A01K5/02—Automatic devices
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K39/00—Feeding or drinking appliances for poultry or other birds
    • A01K39/01—Feeding devices
    • A01K39/012—Feeding devices filling automatically, e.g. by gravity from a reserve
    • A01K39/0125—Panfeeding systems; Feeding pans therefor
    • A—HUMAN NECESSITIES
    • A01—AGRICULTURE; FORESTRY; ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; HUNTING; TRAPPING; FISHING
    • A01K—ANIMAL HUSBANDRY; AVICULTURE; APICULTURE; PISCICULTURE; FISHING; REARING OR BREEDING ANIMALS, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR; NEW BREEDS OF ANIMALS
    • A01K5/00—Feeding devices for stock or game ; Feeding wagons; Feeding stacks
    • A01K5/02—Automatic devices
    • A01K5/0258—Automatic devices with endless screws

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  • the present invention relates to an animal feed delivery and metering unit for inclusion in an automated conveyance and distribution system.
  • Such automated feedstuff conveyance and dispensing system especially if they have to provide feed to a large number of animals, have a known imperfection, i.e. their failure to provide a simultaneous and unifom portion of feed to all the groups of animals.
  • not all animals receive the same share of feedstuff those housed closest to the point where the feed is taken off from the machine receive it first, have more time to eat and therefore eat their fill - in many instances selecting the more appetizing components.
  • the present invention solves the problem in question by employing two distinct and successive steps: the first step distributes the feed along the entire conveying line, and the second step delivers the distributed food at the delivery points.
  • the conveying member (wire-rope, chain or auger) fills the tube - fully closed during this step - with feed in an equal and identical manner and, in the second step, delivers said feed at equidistant points so that a quantitatively and qualitatively identical portion is delivered at all the remaining delivery point, as the result of equidistant off-loading ports along the length of the tube being opened.
  • the present invention employs a feed metering and delivery unit for incorporation into a feed distribution and conveying system provided with a conveying member, said unit being characterized in that its shape is substantially tubular to allow the said conveying member to pass through, and in that it features at least one open bore in its base and, proximally to the outer part of the base, guide means adapted to receive in sliding fashion a shutter element which can be alternatively brought - with respect to the bore in the tubular unit base - to an offset position and to a coincident position.
  • antifriction means are provided between the said shutter element and the tubular unit base.
  • said antifriction means consist of an annular border in relief protruding outwards from each tubular element base bore.
  • the shutter element too, can be provided with at least one open bore adapted to be brought, following a controlled shift of the shutter element in one or the other direction, alternatively to an offset position and a coincident position with respect to the tubular unit base bore.
  • Each feed delivery and metering unit can, at a regular reciprocal distance, features a plurality of bores in its base, and in such case the relative sliding lamina will also have a corresponding number of bores so that the said unit may serve a plurality of feed, delivery points.
  • the conveyance and distribution system can also incorporate several feed delivery and metering units - one following the next and/or with closed tubular section interposed between them, depending on the requirements of the system and the arrangement of the pans, thoughs and/or cages.
  • the invention also provides for making one delivery and metering unit solid with one trough, both preferably being single-piece constructions made for example of extruded plastic material, with the delivery and metering unit disposed proximally to a lingitudinal upper edge of the trough.
  • each unit can have its own sliding shutter and such shutter are also interconnected by suitable means, for example by screwing, riveting or welding.
  • a single shutter can be provided which serves several consecutive delivery and metering units.
  • the sliding shutter of the delivery and metering unit can be controlled to perform the alternating movements by any type of mechanical, pneumatic or hydraulic control and provision can also be made for a suitable programmer for actuating said control.
  • an animal feed delivery and metering unit has the shape of a tubular cylinder of appropriate lenght.
  • the tubular unit 10 has a circumference which is closed except for circular bores 11 in its base at regular reciprocal distances. On its lower side the tubular unit 10 has two parallel external guides 12 and 13 formed from edges 14 and 15 respectively which are solid with the unit 10, said guides being parallel to the longitudinal axis of the unit 10.
  • the guides 12 and 13 slidingly receive a shutter element having the form of a flat and slightly curved lamina 16 which also has circular bores 17 at regular reciprocal distances equal to the reciprocal distances of the bores 11 in the base of the tubular unit 10.
  • a conveying member generically indicated by 18 Placed slidingly within the tubular unit 10 and in its longitudinal direction is a conveying member generically indicated by 18 which, in the exemplifying instance considered, is conventionally constructed and features a wire rope 19 bearing disk-shaped conveying elements at regular reciprocal distances.
  • a conveying member generically indicated by 18 which, in the exemplifying instance considered, is conventionally constructed and features a wire rope 19 bearing disk-shaped conveying elements at regular reciprocal distances.
  • the tubular unit 10 is completed with a longitudinal upper reinforcement ribbing 23 and with two bores 24, 25 formed below the sides of the respective edges 14, 15.
  • These bores receive alignment aids (not illustrated) when consecutive units inserted into the animal feed conveying and dispensing system are assembled.
  • tubular unit 10 with lower guides and reinforcement ribbing, to be fabricated by extrusion of a suitable plastics material, the steel wires 21 and 22 and any metal reinforcement 26 in the reinforcement ribbing 23 being incorporated directly into the plastics material when the unit 10 is extruded.
  • the delivery and metering unit that has been described can be used as such, but it is also possible to combine it with an ordinary trough; in such case the unit 10 will be disposed proximally to an upper edge of the trough and can be produced in a single piece - preferably by extrusion of a plastics material - with the trough.
  • the reinforcement ribbing of the animal feed delivery and metering unit is superfluous in such an embodiment, the structure of which is in itself sufficiently rigid.
  • the feed delivery and metering unit according to the invention can be provided with a sleeve slidingly mounted externally to the said unit so as to allow the closing at will of a delivery bore of the unit if it is wished to prevent the release of feed at the relative delivery point.
  • the closing-shutter of each unit is normally shifted to a position in which its bores are offset with respect to the delivery hole on the base of the respective unit, so that the feed cannot be released from such bores.
  • the conveying member operating in the conveyance and distribution line then distributes the feed along the entire line at the points where there are delivery points, without yet delivering the feed to such points.
  • Subsequently, at the pre-set time of the lamina-type shutter is caused to shift a pitch so that its bores will coincide with those in the base of the delivery and metering unit, with the result that an equal amount of feed is delivered at each delivery point.
  • the conveyor is moved forward by a distance corresponding to the distance between two delivery points; in this phase, too, equal amounts of feed are released at all the delivery points.
  • the unit according to the present invention provides a very straightforward and economical solution of the problem of simultaneously releasing feed at all the delivery points along the distribution line, and also ensures that equal amounts of feed are each time released at each of said points.
  • the delivery and metering unit is not restricted to a given length, and that its length can be chosen at will in relation to the requirements of the system. Nor is said unit conditioned by the specific type of the conveyor illustrated, it being possible to employ other types of conveyors per se known and also a channel instead of a tube.
  • the opening 11 each feature an annular edge in relief 27, facing outwards, which can for example be formed by punching.
  • the shutter 16 translates on said edges 27 of the openings with a minimum friction, resulting only from the small contact areas (clearly visible in Figure 6) between the shutter 16 and the edges 27. 31 is the trough.
  • the shutter 16 can therefore be moved to and fro between the positions shown in Figures 5 and 6 by means of an inexpensive, ,low-power control device without the risks of jamming that would exist if elevated resistant forces were applied to the shutter 16.
  • the shutter 16 instead of being formed from a continuous lamina with holes 17 and laterally guided, the shutter 16 comprises a plurality of tabs 28 fixed cantilever-fashion to a cable 29 guided within a single guide 30 ( Figures 7 and 8).
  • Such an embodiment featuring a single guide and a plurality of shutters is especially appropriate inasmuch as it prevents any risk of arrest of the feed between the shutters and the tube, as a result also of the downward-slanting disposition of the bottom of the tube itself.
  • the invention has been described with reference to a wire rope moving within a tube for purely exemplifying and not limiting purposes.
  • the wire rope and tube can be substituted by a chain and a channel respectively, without any alteration of the scope of the invention.

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EP85201469A 1984-10-03 1985-09-16 Einheit zur Ausgabe und Dosierung von Tierfutter Withdrawn EP0177083A3 (de)

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IT2343184U 1984-10-03
IT2343184U IT8423431V0 (it) 1984-10-03 1984-10-03 Elemento distributore e razionatore di mangime per uso zootecnico
IT2240885U IT8522408V0 (it) 1985-07-05 1985-07-05 Impianto per la distribuzione di dosi di mangime in allevamenti zootecnici.
IT2240885U 1985-07-05

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BR (1) BR8504857A (de)
CA (1) CA1238537A (de)
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EP0270150A1 (de) * 1986-11-17 1988-06-08 Camillo Pirovano Fütterschale oder Trog für Tierzuchteinrichtungen
NL1004149C2 (nl) * 1996-09-30 1998-03-31 Roxell Nv Voederinstallatie, en klep bestemd voor gebruik in een dergelijke installatie.
ES2184595A1 (es) * 2001-01-23 2003-04-01 Fabricaciones Y Ventas Para Ga Sistema de dosificacion de alimentacion animal, y regulable y automatico.
WO2009067816A1 (en) * 2007-11-30 2009-06-04 Pigboss Suivi Croissance Inc. System and method for conveying animal feed
EP2371212A1 (de) * 2010-04-01 2011-10-05 Paolo Pirovano Anlage zur gesteuerten Verteilung eines im wesentlichen fluiden Tierfuttermittels
FR3001360A1 (fr) * 2013-01-25 2014-08-01 Jean-Yves Michard Systeme de distribution d'aliments pour animaux, tels que des volailles
FR3003434A1 (fr) * 2013-03-20 2014-09-26 Dussau Distrib Chaine de distribution d'aliments pour le nourrissage des animaux d'elevage
CN110100751A (zh) * 2019-04-02 2019-08-09 华南农业大学 智能喂料与清洗系统

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EP0270150A1 (de) * 1986-11-17 1988-06-08 Camillo Pirovano Fütterschale oder Trog für Tierzuchteinrichtungen
NL1004149C2 (nl) * 1996-09-30 1998-03-31 Roxell Nv Voederinstallatie, en klep bestemd voor gebruik in een dergelijke installatie.
EP0845207A1 (de) * 1996-09-30 1998-06-03 Roxell N.V. Fütterungsanlage und Ventil für solche Anlage
US5964185A (en) * 1996-09-30 1999-10-12 Roxell, N.V. Feeding installation, and valve for use in such an installation
ES2184595A1 (es) * 2001-01-23 2003-04-01 Fabricaciones Y Ventas Para Ga Sistema de dosificacion de alimentacion animal, y regulable y automatico.
WO2009067816A1 (en) * 2007-11-30 2009-06-04 Pigboss Suivi Croissance Inc. System and method for conveying animal feed
EP2371212A1 (de) * 2010-04-01 2011-10-05 Paolo Pirovano Anlage zur gesteuerten Verteilung eines im wesentlichen fluiden Tierfuttermittels
FR3001360A1 (fr) * 2013-01-25 2014-08-01 Jean-Yves Michard Systeme de distribution d'aliments pour animaux, tels que des volailles
FR3003434A1 (fr) * 2013-03-20 2014-09-26 Dussau Distrib Chaine de distribution d'aliments pour le nourrissage des animaux d'elevage
CN110100751A (zh) * 2019-04-02 2019-08-09 华南农业大学 智能喂料与清洗系统

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DK447585A (da) 1986-04-04
BR8504857A (pt) 1986-07-22
CN85107224A (zh) 1986-07-02
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CA1238537A (en) 1988-06-28
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